Beginning Korean: First-Year I, II, III
LTKO 1A - Beginning Korean: First Year I
First year Korean 1A (5 units)
is the first part of the Beginning Korean series. This course is designed to
assist students to develop low-beginning level skills in the Korean language.
These skills are speaking, listening, reading, and writing, as well as cultural
understanding. This course will begin by introducing the writing and sound
system of the Korean language. The remainder of the course will focus on
grammatical patterns such as basic sentence structures, some grammatical
points, and expressions. Upon completion of this course, students will be able
to do the following in Korean:
Speaking: Students are able to handle successfully a limited number of
uncomplicated communicative tasks by creating with the language in
straightforward social situation. Conversation is restricted to some of the
concrete exchanges and predictable topics necessary for survival in the
target-language culture. They can express personal meaning by combining and
recombining what they know and what they hear from their interlocutors into
short statements and discrete sentences.
Listening: Students are able to understand some information from
sentence-length speech, one utterance at a time, in basic personal and social
contexts, though comprehension is often uneven.
Reading: Students are able to understand some information from the simplest
connected texts dealing with a limited number of personal and social needs,
although there may be frequent misunderstandings.
Writing: Students are able to meet some limited practical writing needs.
They can create statements and formulate questions based on familiar material.
Most sentences are re-combinations of learned vocabulary and structure.
Prerequisite: No prior study of Korean is required.
LTKO 1B - Beginning Korean: First Year II
First Year Korean 1B (5 units)
is the second part of the Beginning Korean series. This course is designed to
assist students to develop mid-beginning level skills in the Korean language.
These skills are speaking, listening, reading, and writing, as well as cultural
understanding. LTKO 1B is designed for students who have already mastered the
materials covered in LTKO 1A or who are already in the equivalent proficiency
level. This course will focus on grammatical patterns, such as sentence
structures, some simple grammatical points, and some survival level use of the
Korean language. Additionally, speaking, reading, writing, and listening
comprehension will all be emphasized, with special attention to oral speech.
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to do the following in
Korean:
Speaking: Students are able to handle successfully a variety of uncomplicated
communicative tasks in straightforward social situations. Conversation is
generally limited to those predictable and concrete exchange necessary for
survival in the target culture. They are capable of asking a variety of
questions when necessary to obtain simple information to satisfy basic needs.
Listening: Students are able to understand simple, sentence-length speech, one
utterance at a time, in variety of basic personal and social contexts.
Comprehension is most often accurate with highly familiar and predictable
topics although a few misunderstandings may occur.
Reading: Students are able to understand short, non-complex texts that
convey basic information and deal with basic personal and social topics to
which they bring personal interest or knowledge, although some
misunderstandings may occur. They may get some meaning from short connected
texts featuring description and narration, dealing with familiar topics.
Writing: Students
are able to meet a number of practical writing needs. They can write short,
simple communications, compositions, and requests for information in loosely
connected texts about personal preferences, daily routines, common events, and
other personal topics.
Prerequisite: LTKO 1A or an equivalent level of proficiency in Korean language.
LTKO 1C - Beginning Korean: First Year III
First Year Korean 1C (5
units) is the third part of the Beginning Korean. This course is designed to
assist students to develop high-beginning level skills in the Korean language.
These skills are speaking, listening, reading, and writing, as well as cultural
understanding. LTKO 1C is designed for students who have already mastered LTKO
1B or who are already in the equivalent proficiency level. This course will
focus on grammatical patterns such as sentence structures, some simple
grammatical points, and some survival level use of Korean language.
Additionally, speaking, reading, writing, and listening comprehension will all
be emphasized, with special attention to oral speech. Upon completion of this
course, students will become able to do the following in Korean:
Speaking: Students are able to converse with ease and confidence when dealing
with the routine tasks and social situations. They are able to handle
successfully uncomplicated tasks and social situations requiring an exchange of
basic information. They can narrate and describe in all major time frames using
connected discourse of paragraph length, but not all the time.
Listening: Students are able to understand, with ease and confidence, simple
sentence-length speech in basic personal and social contexts. They can derive
substantial meaning from some connected texts, although there often will be
gaps in understanding due to a limited knowledge of the vocabulary and
structure of the spoken language.
Reading: Students are able to understand fully and with ease short,
non-complex texts that convey basic information and deal with personal and
social topics to which they brings personal interest or knowledge. They are
able to understand some connected texts featuring description and narration
although there will be occasional gaps in understanding due to a limited
knowledge of the vocabulary, structures, and writing conventions of the
language.
Writing: Students are able to meet all practical writing needs of the basic
level. They also can write compositions and simple summaries related to work
and/or school experiences. They can narrate and describe in different time
frames when writing about everyday events and situations.
Prerequisite: LTKO 1B or an equivalent level of proficiency in Korean language.
Intermediate Korean: Second-Year I, II, III
LTKO 2A - Intermediate Korean: Second Year I
Second Year Korean 2A is
the first part of the Intermediate Korean. Students in this course are assumed
to have previous knowledge of Korean, which was taught in the Korean 1A, 1B,
and 1C courses. Students in this course will learn low-intermediate level
skills in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Korean, as
well as expand their cultural understanding. Upon completion of this course,
students are expected to acquire and use more vocabularies, expressions and
sentence structures and to have a good command of Korean in various
conversational situations. Students are expected to write short essays using
the vocabularies, expressions, and sentence structures introduced. Upon
completion of this course, students will be able to do the following in Korean:
Speaking: Students are able to handle a variety of communicative tasks. They
are able to participate in most informal and some formal conversations on
topics related to school, home, and leisure activities. Students demonstrate
the ability to narrate and describe in the major time frames in
paragraph-length discourse. They show the ability to combine and link
sentences into connected discourse of paragraph length.
Listening: Students are able to understand short conventional narrative and
descriptive texts with a clear underlying structure though their comprehension
may uneven. They understand the main facts and some supporting details.
Comprehension may often derive primarily from situation and subject-matter
knowledge.
Reading: Students are able to understand conventional narrative and
descriptive texts with a clear underlying structure though their comprehension
may be uneven. These texts predominantly contain high-frequency vocabulary and
structure. Students understand the main ideas and some supporting details.
Comprehension may often derive primarily from situational and subject-matter
knowledge.
Writing: Students are able to meet basic work and/or academic writing needs.
They are able to compose simple summaries on familiar topics. They are able to
combine and link sentences into texts of paragraph length and structure. They
demonstrate the ability to incorporate a limited number of cohesive devices.
Prerequisite: LTKO 1C or an equivalent level of proficiency in Korean language.
LTKO 2B - Intermediate Korean: Second Year II
Second Year Korean 2B (5
units) is the second part of the Intermediate Korean. Students in this course
are assumed to have previous knowledge of Korean, which was taught during the
Korean 1A, 1B, 1C, and 2A courses. Students in this course will learn
mid-intermediate level of standard modern Korean in listening, speaking,
reading, and writing, as well as expand their cultural understanding. After the
completion of this course, students are expected to acquire and use more
vocabularies, expressions, and sentence structures and to have a good command
of Korean in various conversational situations. Students are also expected to
write short essays using the vocabularies, expressions, and sentence structures
introduced. Upon completion of this course, students will become able to do the
following in Korean:
Speaking: Students are able to handle with ease and confidence a large number
of communicative tasks. They participate actively in most informal and some
formal exchanges on a variety of concrete topics relating to work, school,
home, and leisure activities, as well as topics relating to events of current,
public, and personal interest or individual relevance.
Listening: Students are able to understand conventional narrative and
descriptive texts, such as extended descriptions of persons, places, and
things, and narrations about past, present, and future events. The speech is
predominantly in familiar target-language patterns. They understand the main
facts and many supporting details.
Reading: Students are able to understand conventional narrative and
descriptive texts, such as extended descriptions of persons, places, and things
and narrations about past, present, and future events. They understand the main
ideas, facts and many supporting details. Students may derive some meaning from
texts that are structurally and/or conceptually more complex.
Writing: Students are able to meet a range of work and/or academic writing
needs. They are able to write straightforward summaries on topics of general
interest. There is good control of the most frequently used target-language
syntactic structure and a range of general vocabulary.
Prerequisite: LTKO 2A or an equivalent level of proficiency in Korean language.
LTKO 2C - Intermediate Korean: Second Year III
Second
Year Korean 2C (5 units) is the third part of the Intermediate Korean. Students
in this course are assumed to have previous knowledge of Korean, which was
taught during the Korean 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A and 2B courses. Students in this course
will learn high-intermediate level of standard modern Korean in listening,
speaking, reading, and writing, as well as expand their cultural understanding.
After the completion of this course, students are expected to acquire and use
more vocabularies, expressions, and sentence structures and to have a good
command of Korean in various conversational situations. Students are also
expected to write short essays using the vocabularies, expressions, and
sentence structures introduced. Upon completion of this course, students will
be able to do the following in Korean:
Speaking: Students can
perform all intermediate-level tasks with linguistic ease, confidence, and
competence. They are consistently able to explain in detail and narrate fully
and accurately in all time frame. In addition, they may provide a structured
argument to support their opinions, and they may construct hypotheses. They may
demonstrate a well-developed ability to compensate for an imperfect grasp of
some forms or for limitations in vocabulary by the confident use of
communicative strategies.
Listening: Students are
able to understand, with ease and confidence, conventional narrative and
descriptive texts of any length as well as complex factual material such as
summaries or reports. They are able to follow some of the essential points of
more complex or argumentative speech in areas of special interest or knowledge.
Reading: Students are
able to understand, fully and with ease, conventional narrative and descriptive
texts of any length as well as more complex factual material. They are able to
follow some of the essential points of argumentative texts in areas of special
interest or knowledge. In addition, they are able to understand parts of texts
that deal with unfamiliar topics or situations.
Writing: Students are
able to write about a variety of topics with significant precision and detail.
They can handle informal and formal correspondence according to appropriate
conventions. They can write summaries and reports of a factual nature. They can
also write extensively about topics relating to particular interests and
special areas of competence.
Prerequisite: LTKO 2B or an equivalent level of proficiency in Korean language.
UPPER-DIVISION LANGUAGE COURSE
Advanced Korean: Third-Year I, II, III
LTKO 130F - Advanced Korean: Third Year I
Third
Year Korean 130F (4 units) is the first part of the advanced Korean. Students in
this course are assumed to have previous knowledge of Korean, which was taught
in the Korean 2A, 2B, and 2C courses. Students in this course will learn
low-advanced level skills in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, and
writing in Korean, as well as expand their cultural understanding. Upon
completion of this course, students are expected to acquire and use more
vocabularies, expressions and sentence structures and to have a good command of
Korean in formal situations. Students are expected to read and understand daily
newspapers and daily news broadcasts. Upon completion of this course, students
will be able to do the following in Korean:
Speaking: Students are
able to communicate with accuracy and fluency in order to participate fully and
effectively in conversations on a variety of topics in formal and informal
settings from both concrete and abstract perspectives. They discuss their
interests and special fields of competence, explain complex matters in detail,
and provide lengthy and coherent narrations, all with ease, fluency, and accuracy.
They present their opinions on a number of issues of interest to them, and
provide structured arguments to support these opinions.
Listening: Students are
able to understand speech in a standard dialect on a wide range of familiar and
less familiar topics. They can follow linguistically complex extended
discourse. Comprehension is no longer limited to the listener's familiarity
with subject matter, but also comes from a command of the language that is
supported by a broad vocabulary, an understanding of more complex structures
and linguistic experience within the target culture. Students can understand
not only what is said, but sometimes what is left unsaid.
Reading: Students are
able to understand texts from many genres dealing with a wide range of
subjects, both familiar and unfamiliar. Comprehension is no longer limited to
the reader's familiarity with subject matter, but also comes from a command of
the language that is supported by a broad vocabulary, an understanding of
complex structures and knowledge of the target culture. Students at this level
can draw inferences from textual and extralinguistic clues.
Writing: Students are
able to produce most kinds of formal and informal correspondence, in-depth
summaries, reports, and research papers. They demonstrate the ability to
explain complex matters, and to present and support opinions by developing
cogent arguments and hypotheses. They demonstrate a high degree of control of
grammar and syntax, of general vocabulary, of spelling or symbol production, of
cohesive devices, and of punctuation.
Prerequisite: LTKO 2C or an equivalent level of proficiency in Korean language.
LTKO 130W - Advanced Korean: Third Year II
Third
Year Korean 130W (4 units) is the second part of the advanced Korean. Students in
this course are assumed to have previous knowledge of Korean, which was taught
in the Korean 2A, 2B, 2C and 130F courses. Students in this course will learn
mid-advanced level skills in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, and
writing in Korean, as well as expand their cultural understanding. Upon
completion of this course, students are expected to acquire and use more
vocabularies, expressions and sentence structures and to have a good command of
Korean in formal situations. Students are expected to read and understand daily
newspapers and daily news broadcasts. Upon completion of this course, students
will be able to do the following in Korean:
Speaking: Students are
able to communicate with accuracy and fluency in order to participate fully and
effectively in conversations on a variety of topics in formal and informal
settings from both concrete and abstract perspectives. They discuss their
interests and special fields of competence, explain complex matters in detail,
and provide lengthy and coherent narrations, all with ease, fluency, and
accuracy. They present their opinions on a number of issues of interest to
them, and provide structured arguments to support these opinions.
Listening: Students are
able to understand speech in a standard dialect on a wide range of familiar and
less familiar topics. They can follow linguistically complex extended
discourse. Comprehension is no longer limited to the listener's familiarity
with subject matter, but also comes from a command of the language that is
supported by a broad vocabulary, an understanding of more complex structures and
linguistic experience within the target culture. Students can understand not
only what is said, but sometimes what is left unsaid.
Reading: Students are
able to understand texts from many genres dealing with a wide range of
subjects, both familiar and unfamiliar. Comprehension is no longer limited to
the reader's familiarity with subject matter, but also comes from a command of
the language that is supported by a broad vocabulary, an understanding of
complex structures and knowledge of the target culture. Students at this level
can draw inferences from textual and extralinguistic clues.
Writing: Students are
able to produce most kinds of formal and informal correspondence, in-depth
summaries, reports, and research papers. They demonstrate the ability to explain
complex matters, and to present and support opinions by developing cogent
arguments and hypotheses. They demonstrate a high degree of control of grammar
and syntax, of general vocabulary, of spelling or symbol production, of
cohesive devices, and of punctuation.
Prerequisite: LTKO 2C or an equivalent level of proficiency in Korean language.
LTKO 130P - Advanced Korean: Third Year III
Third
Year Korean 130P (4 units) is the third part of the advanced Korean. Students in
this course are assumed to have previous knowledge of Korean, which was taught
in the Korean 2A, 2B, 2C, 130F and 130W courses. Students in this course will learn
high-advanced level skills in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, and
writing in Korean, as well as expand their cultural understanding. Upon
completion of this course, students are expected to acquire and use more
vocabularies, expressions and sentence structures and to have a good command of
Korean in formal situations. Students are expected to read and understand daily
newspapers and daily news broadcasts. Upon completion of this course, students
will be able to do the following in Korean:
Speaking: Students are
able to communicate with accuracy and fluency in order to participate fully and
effectively in conversations on a variety of topics in formal and informal
settings from both concrete and abstract perspectives. They discuss their
interests and special fields of competence, explain complex matters in detail,
and provide lengthy and coherent narrations, all with ease, fluency, and
accuracy. They present their opinions on a number of issues of interest to
them, and provide structured arguments to support these opinions.
Listening: Students are
able to understand speech in a standard dialect on a wide range of familiar and
less familiar topics. They can follow linguistically complex extended
discourse. Comprehension is no longer limited to the listener's familiarity
with subject matter, but also comes from a command of the language that is
supported by a broad vocabulary, an understanding of more complex structures
and linguistic experience within the target culture. Students can understand
not only what is said, but sometimes what is left unsaid.
Reading: Students are
able to understand texts from many genres dealing with a wide range of
subjects, both familiar and unfamiliar. Comprehension is no longer limited to
the reader's familiarity with subject matter, but also comes from a command of
the language that is supported by a broad vocabulary, an understanding of
complex structures and knowledge of the target culture. Students at this level
can draw inferences from textual and extralinguistic clues.
Writing: Students are
able to produce most kinds of formal and informal correspondence, in-depth
summaries, reports, and research papers. They demonstrate the ability to
explain complex matters, and to present and support opinions by developing
cogent arguments and hypotheses. They demonstrate a high degree of control of
grammar and syntax, of general vocabulary, of spelling or symbol production, of
cohesive devices, and of punctuation.
Prerequisite: LTKO 2C or an equivalent level of proficiency in Korean language.
Advanced Korean: Readings in Sino-Korean Characters
LTKO 135: Readings in Sino-Korean Characters (4)
Students in this course will learn advanced and superior-level Sino-Korean vocabulary and characters, skills in reading and understanding advanced Korean materials, and expand their understanding of Korean culture. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to have acquired an expanded vocabulary, knowledge of various expressions using Sino-Korean vocabulary and characters necessary for an advanced and superior level of proficiency in Korean. Sino-Korean characters are used differently from the same Chinese characters used in contemporary China in terms of pronunciation, meaning, and word formation.
Sino-Korean words represent over 70% of the Korean vocabulary at an advanced and superior level. Since most modern Korean is written phonetically in Hangul, however, the semantic connections between related words are not readily transparent to most learners without Chinese character instruction. This course can help students retain new Sino-Korean vocabulary over a short period of time.
Prerequisite: LTKO 2C or an equivalent level of proficiency in Korean language.
